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n ;. ir tu , doli-ars-payable i li ince two dollar l e ifi,rthefirb.,and25cts , courtorders \ . han these rates al.b â€ž. o h advertise by the year tie post panl ,. fetor's sketches the carolina watchman in the manure heap we in a farther degree facilitate the quality in wbich they naturally excel and the tendency of which is to rob them of their mosi valuable element nitrogen ju dicious practice should avoid ibis error by a dopiiug it possible a system having an oppo site effect lime is one of the substances which it is i also an error lo use with composts in which we ! have farm yard manure il is equally an er ror lo mil lime wiih any compound rich in am monia the tendency of lime in all composts i9 lo promote decomposition and to waste ni trogen which escape by onion wilh hydrogen under the form of ammonia wliich i the ery treasure of lbe dunir heap and of most olher j j bruner i / " keep a check upon all vocr editor sf proprietor \ rclers ( new series do this an'p llbekty is safe < gen'l harrison ( volume viii number 41 q church brooklyn n.york the browa j-lu ,._,. ol my pastoral visits 1 i man wbo was a member of ; a a tion , a farmer between fifty s , ; age ; a plain man ac : **. - t0 dailv labor hn was not a am j j had no reason totbmu 5 man he was a regu i he religious services 'â– ' i â– but i had never seen him s .. assembly at any other >'â€¢*,, ", .;, rarded as a respectable eve in all respects his wife _ woman whom 1 had some ','â– -,,] witb and who had ex e ber anxiety in regard to the 0 f her husband he had \ manv years living under the * f erace without being led to re lf8nsÂ°'â€žd faith in christ that she was r;i , : ';'. mind had settled down upon us error or into a strange sta he never would become a shi said she had often talked suhjecl of his religious duty ; i entered into any iree con l upon it indeed " be would say \ , ' n thiiig al all about himself he ,!,,!* she had to say ; without h witb apparent willing , Â«â€¢ but he seldom made any reply ex omake some general acknowledg l 0 i the importance of the subject ",] a family ol children the most of . ir _ had airen.lv arrived at the years of hood and none of them manifested position to obey the gospel inspirit , 'â€¢ ;- tith tbey were a moral and in .. family 1 be sons were much ., â€¢â€¢-. with the exception that uently were seen at church j resided some distance from my ii 1 had not known them very j except the mother as the rest family were usually absent in the ..;) 1 called at their house wore the time to which i refer i had ver found this man at home ; nor had i jtn able to converse with him at all in ference to his religious duty soon af lered the house his wife retired eroom,and lefi me alone with him liately addressed him on the sub | of religion heappeared candid and â– j found that he had no hope in j â€¢â€ž!.;*. he said that religion bail for ma i fÂ»rs appeared to him as a solemn and lant duty he saiil be was fully ible that he vvas a sinner in god's lit and was exposed to his righteous j he refi rred to the sermons which i chad beard from sabbath to sabbath ; dsaid it was t wonder to him that they li not influence him more but he sup jsedlhat lu had " little true conviction sin and little sense of his real condi j hi or be should be a different man in i is manner he spake of himself very free i , for along tune he appeared to me j beamanol respectable mind rather in i ou.iiuml inhissensibilities but ot sound j id nl some discrimination n to give his instant and pray j â– uni to his salvation ; but he did | * ; ti:i inclined to yield to my solicita | pressed it upon him strongly i j '" bun the promises of god made j seek inm : and the threaten â€¢' : uni i.;iii*st tin neglectors of sal ( â€¢ s iil in appeared unmoved i i ncluded to put together in a man ipted to his cast of mind some of est urgent appeals that i could think ' commenced saul i : ** you are al :: iiie hat advanced in life your ing years will be lew you have k e to lose you have lost enough if you do not become a lollower : si soon you never will you have â€¢ ol children vou have never set sample of piety you have prayed with them as you ought to ' v ur neglect goes far to de i influence which their mother j - ' ;â€¢'â€¢'"â€¢ over them they copy your i will bold you accountable i v influence you may be the ' ht i their roin because 1 i-at often troubles me said he in p : g me in the middle of what i de i say â€¢-'' to trouble you it is a serious ra lather to live before his sons owledginggod without pray j p just as if he and they had j te rest in the matter of religion â– '-'â€¢ whose * spirit goeth down ; odeed it is said he 'â€¢ and i am - to be an old man 1 wish 1 religion " ca Â»- the whole way is clear j w j lias made it so jjjj 7 h said he emphatically ,^ vou would make a prayer with 7 ' in mrs e and the boys mediately called them sl * a>i s a few words to each ot 1 , , """'">' addressing them all we -' -â€¢ i in prayer as we rose from ' v ' he said to his children verv '-.-,:' ., y s Â» l hope this visit of our . ''â– jo us all good it is time for ' ot our souls i left them .... ne j sabbath they were all in â€¢:â€¢:'. h s '""â€¢' close of the morning ser â– > -. . ."^ v " ; j conversation again with "'* appeared to be honestly 7 ,'; k-rimned to ** deny l jimse i be c j cr ss and follow jesus christ '" ued very much in this state of t "* months sensible of his need , f s ave him and prayerful for ;-â€¢ i saw him and conversed * uan i times ile did not appear to make any progress eitheir in knowledge | or sensibility he did not go back ; but j he was stationary he prayed in secret ; he prayed in his family he studied his bible he conversed with me freely â€” he sought opportunity for conversation uniformly he appeared solemn and in earnest but he found no peace with god no hope in christ evidently be was in deep trouble of mind as he was not a man of much cultiva j tion of mind i aimed to teach him the j truth in the most plain and simple man i ner i proved every thing and explained j every thing it was all in vain months | rolled on he continued in the same state it was impossible to discover or conjec ture what kept him from christ his con dition tilled me with solicitude ; but i stud ied it in vain i made inquiries about him among his friends and neighbors to learn it possible his whole disposition and his character of i mind but i soon discovered as i thought that i knew him better than any body else ! more than six months after he began to j give his prayerful attention to his salva i tion as i was riding towards his house just at a turn in the road where it wound round a hill which hindered our seeing each other till we were close together i suddenly met him he vvas riding in his one-horse wagon towards the village i stopped my horse to speak to him and i thought he appeared disposed to pass on but as the road was narrow and i had stopped my carriage the wheels of our vehicles almost touched each other and he could not well get by we had a long conversation as we sat in our carriages in that retired and romantic spot but i descerned no change in his religious feel ings he was as determined but as hope less as ever at length my eye happened to rest on a brown jug which would contain about two gallons and which was lying on its side under the seat of his wagon the thought came into my mind that he might be accustomed to stimulating drinks and that that might be an injury and a hin drance to him in his religious endeavors i had never heard or suspected that he was an intemperate man probably the idea never would have occurred to me that strong drink might be his hindrance had 1 not been utterly unable to account for his stationary conditicn in respect to re ligion 1 instantly resolved to speak to him on that subject but it was an awk ward business 1 did not know how to begin i would not insult him and i did not wish to injure his feelings he was an old man near sixty â€” old enough to be my father and to suggest the idea that he might be guilty of any excess would seem to be cruel and uncalled lor but 1 thought it my duty to make some inquiry so 1 began : 'â€¢ mr e where are you going this morn ing â€¢" â€¢â€¢ i am going to the village â€” to the store j â€¢* i see you have got a jug there under , your seat ; what are you going to do with that ?" he cast his eye down upon it a little confused for an instant as 1 thought but he immediately replied : â€” â€¢â€¢ i am going to get some rum in it ?" " are you accustomed to drink rum ?" " i never drink any to hurt me " you never drink any to do you any good â€¢â€¢ i have thought it did sometimes i don't drink much " do you drink every day ?" " no uot every day commonly we . had none to use in the field this year in j all our haying till we came to the wet meadow ; when the boys said we should get the fever if we worked with our feet j wet and had nothing to drink " so you have used it since that time i you carry it into the field i suppose ?" j â€¢' yes ; we commonly do in haying and j harvest | â€¢' well ; at other times of the year do : you keep it on hand in your house ?" * - yes ; i always keep it but it is only j a litlle that i drink ; sometimes a glass of j bitters in the morning â€” or when i am : not well and feel that i need something j 'â€¢ mr e when you are perplexed annoy ed or in some trouble ; do you never take a drink on that account 1 " 1 am very apt to it seems to keep _ Â» me up well now just tell me for a good manv months back since you have been i troubled on the subject of religion have i you been accustomed to resort to it ' to â€¢ keep you up v " . i " yes ; at times i feel the need of it " in my opinion that is the o.wmhing my dear friend that you could do /" " why i only drink a little at home 1 have not carried it into the field except in having time Â« so i understand it but one question more : have vou not often at home when you have felt'dovvn-cast in mind on ac count of sin taken a drink because you felt thus troubled ?" â€¢â€¢ i believe i have done it some times i cannot tell how often i never thought much about it i had become convinced by this time that he was at least in dan ger ; and that it vvas not at all an impro bable thing that his drinking just kept him from repentance 1 told him so ; and then began with all my sagacity and pow er of persuasion to induce him to quit all intoxicating drinks forever at first he appeared not to believe me at all he heard me just as if be had made up his mind and did not care what i said his eyes wandered carelessly around over the fields and trees and then turned upon his old horse as if he was impatient to start on and get out of the way of a lecture which he disbelieved after a time however and while i was stating to him some facts within my own j knowledge to show the uselessness of i strong drink he became apparently inter | ested in what i was saying he listened ! and i went on with my plea as i explain j ed the effect of intoxicating drink upon j the mind and upon the feeling and tbe ] conscience of men he hung down his head â€¢ and appeared to be lost in thought after j a while as i kept talking he cast a glance at his jug ; then looked up ; and then his i eyes fell back upon his jug again i kept reasoning with him ; but he did not look at me any longer â€” he did not appear to be thinking of what i was saying he appeared rather to be engaged in deep thought ; and his eye often turned upon his jug by-and by he slowly reached down his hand and took hold of it with a very solemn countenance and without saying a word â€” he had not spoken for half on hour â€” he placed the brown jug upon his knee i talked on watching his silent motions he turned his head very deliberately around one way and the oth er as if he were looking for something ; his eyes glancing here and there as if he did not see what he desired i kept on talking to him just at the spot where we were the road swept politely round a large huge stone or side of a rock which rose about ten feet above the path ; and as those who built the road could not get it out of the way the path made rather a short turn round it this rock was within three feet of his wagon his eye fixed upon it and then glanced back to the jug upon his knee then he looked at the rock and then at his jug again and then at me â€” and thus his eye continued to wander from one to another of these three objects as if it could not get beyond them at first i was in some doubt which of the three was the most attractive to his eye â€” the rock the brown jug or myself but in a lit tle time i noticed that his eye rested on the brown jug longer than on me at length i was lost sight of altogether though 1 continued talking to him and his eye glanced backwards and forwards from the brown jug to the rock and from the rock to the brown jug all this time he maintained an unbroken silence and i kept on with my lecture finally he seized the poor jug by its side wrapping the long fingers of his right hand half round it and slowly rising from his seat he stretched up his tall frame to its full length and lifting the brown jug aloft as high as his arm could reach he hurled it with all his might against the rock dashing it into a thousand pieces â€” whoa whoa whoa said he to the old hold on here whoa ! whoa ! turn about here whoa we will go home now the horse had suddenly started forwards frightened at the clatter of the brown jug and the pieces which bounded back against his legs and side the start was very sudden ; and as my long friend was standing up it came near to pitch his tall figure out of the wagon backwards however he did not fall â€” as he cried " whoa ! whoa !"' he put back his long arm upon the side of the wagon and saved himself he soon stopped his old horse and deliberately turning him round in the street till he got him headed towards home he put on the whip and without saying a word to me or even cast ing a patting look he drove off like jehu i drove on alter him as fast i could ; but i could not catch him he flew over the road and when i past his house about a mile from the jug rock he was stripping off tbe harness in a great hurry we exchanged a parting bow as i drove by ; and i never spoke to him about rum after wards within a single month from this j time that man became as he believed a child ol god his gloom and fears were gone ; and he had peace by faith in jesus christ about a month afterwards as i passed the spot where such a catastrophe came upon the jug and where my long friend came so near to be toppled out of his wag i on ; i noticed that some one had gathered i up some pieces of the unfortunate brown ! jug and placed them high up on a shoul ! deÂ°r of the rock i saw them lying there | many times afterwards ; and thought that my friend had probably placed them there as an affecting memorial he might have done a worse thing from the soil of the south the science of agriculture we have said that agriculture has be come a science that we are right in this all men of intelligence will admit although no doubt many of our old far mers would shrug their shoulders at the idea of sending their sons to school to learn how to manage their farm ! however they should not think strange of this â€” instead of being a routine of drudgery as in ages past farming is becoming a most delightful profession and has already en listed in its ranks the first intellects of the world the day has come when the scientific farmer takes a high rank in the world of intellect some of our readers we presume will pooh at these book farmers and ask in in what these scientific principles of farm ing consist ? what these wonderful dis coveries are ? but a few reflections ought to do away j with all surprise upon this subject let ! the old fashioned farmer ask himself why j it is ihat some pieces of land will produce ! a better crop ol oats corn or wheat than others or why is it that kernel of corn ! placed in the ground will spring up grow to a great height and produce a large ' bulk of the same material ? from what i are the large stalks leaves and ears of corn produced ? how can the farmer an i swer this question no one substance exists in the ground to spring up myster i iously in this way the most slight ob | server is forced to say that the stock and grain is taken from the atmosphere and j drawn from the water and gases in the earth by the roots which extend them selves in every direction from the grain planted the water so taken up by the i roots is charged with mineral and vege j table substances and by a process similar to that by which nature changes food ta ken into the stomach into flesh they are converted into the growing plant to learn exactly what these materials taken up by the roots and grain are is the first step in agricultural science : and if this can be found out is there a farmer in the world who would hesitate to say that the discovery wouid be of the highest im portance ? by finding this out he would at once see that he would have a guide in selecting the soils and preparing them for any required crop soils vary all are not formed of the same materials â€” neither are grains all composed of the same principles in the same proportions the soil that will nourish one kind will not sustain another the chemist is able to separate all the parts of a plant and tell us of what they are composed this has been done re peatedly the corn plant of which we have been speaking is found to be com posed of the following materials viz when green and growing about 89 or 90 parts in a hundred of water ; of carbonic acid ; silica or flint ; sulphuric acid ; phos phoric acid ; lime ; magnesia ; potash ; soda and chlorine the principal substan ces of all plants the proportions of the above substances saving water are not given as the allusion to the composition plants is only made to show of what they are formed perhaps it is well to say that the substances most abounding in the green stalk after separating the water are silica phosphoric acid and soda pot ash abounds in the blade ; but is far more abundant in the ripened kernel conse quently it is seen that ashes are a good manure for this plant and the experience of farmers has confirmed the indications of chemical analysis the foregoing observations lead to im portant inquiries and considerations the substances which form a blade of grass or a vegetable plant are all conveyed to them through the medium ot gases and water the mineral parts are of course j dissolved by the water flowing through the . soil and arrested by the roots of the plant j and thus converted into vegetation thus j we see why in order to be productive | the water must have a free circulation | through the soil ; as when it is otherwise | the mineral substances are not so easily i dissolved and circulated and the air is ex ( eluded leaving the land wet with cold ; and sour and here we see that drain age is another confirmation of the indica tions of chemical analysis we propose here to state another indt cation of chemical analysis which has â– been sustained by experience of farmers | although the course indicated is plowing j the idea is that by putting the plow down | deep more soil and mineral substances are brought to the surface exposed tothe j atmosphere and water and thus decom posed and rendered nutriment for plants deep plowing is called for by the pr.nci ples of agricultural science and is sus tained by well tested experiments there can be no question other things be ing equal but that one acre of soil twelve inches deep try it farmers ; plow dee per and a little less of it and if you do not find the practice here advised to your profit.you will not be likely to find it great ly to your loss from the southern cultivator plow deep and plant shal i low mr editor in looking about me this vear i have noticed a great number ot farmers in this part ofthe country break ing up their lands about ten inches deep and planting their corn nearly as deep-as is he old adage with us plow deep and plant deep-but plant deep anyhow - now sir do you not know that this ts a Â£Â£Â£/ l/you don't 1 do know that Â£ is as broad a mistake as was ever made by intelligent farmers because i have tried it and i know it by experience m rule is to plow deep and plant shallow contrary to the recommendation , of sev eral agricultural papers and 1 wiu 1 you my reason for so dotng i plow ! deep subsoil from fifteentotwenty inches i so as to get as much clay on top as poss i fble which will through a chemical pro t less turn to soil ; and to turn the soil un de the clay in which i intend lor the j fools ol corn to grow i have the rows in which i intend planting run off about four inches deep ; by this means i secure lhe richest soil for my corn to take root in ; and by plowing deep and planting shal low i have a deep loose soil and will al ways secure moisture to the roots of corn the question might be asked : why is it that he don't plant his corn deep it is this : suppose i break my land fifteen in ches deep and plant my corn twelve i would only have three inches of loose dirt for my corn to grow in and more than pro bable that would be clay while the roots of corn would have little or no advantage from the soil it must be to all that will look at the reason of the case very ovi ous i would ask some of your readers that have their doubts about this if they question it at all to try the experiment | next year and inform you of the result wishing you great success wilh vour pa ! per i remain truth effects of ploughing in green crops as \ compared with feeding them â€” ii is yet a com unon notion that herbiverous animals have some distinct and peculiar mode of action upon the various constituents of their food by which i those parts expelled as excrelae are rendered more til lor the food of plants than could be the ] original foud rotted or decomposod in any oth i er way it is also ordinarily received that the : deposit of a number of animals led upon an acre of any green crop will be more beneficial to the land than an acre of the same crop plow ; ed in and properly decomposed in the land for some years past i have endeavored lo combat these opinions but as they are still re tained in some quarters i intend in this letter to repeat my arguments and to give instances i where practice has proved ihe truth of theoret ical deductions 1 shall not here argue as to the amount of profit and loss attached to the j mode of proceeding as that always depends : upon circumstances ot which the farmer is the j best judge nor shall i attempt lo prove that ! under all possible circumstances to plough in a green crop will give a greater produce han to feed it off for in case of exceedingly light lands lhe mechanical action ol the ireading of the feet of the sheep however is lhat under general circumstances in ordinary soils lhe ploughing in of any green crop and its subse quent decomposition in the soil will give more manure lo thai soil than if the crop had been off and that lhe effect ol this great amount of manure will be seen in the subsequent crops the arguments in proof may be slated as fol lows : firstly it is well established that animals in breathing give back more tothe air than they derive from it they receive nitrogen and oxy j gen and return them again plus a certain ex cess of nitrogen carbonic acid and aqueous j vapor animals also transmit to he air much i insensible and sensible perspiration secondly : the experiments of bousinijnauli j and others have shown that the liquid and solid j excrements td animals weigh much less than j the food from which ihey have been derived ; and lhat as regards the food excreta are defi cient in nitrogen carbon and hydrogen thirdly : it is well known lhat animals con sume a considerable portion of the farinaceous and oleaginous portions of iheir food for the production o animal heat aud the greater por tion ol the excess is laid up in the form of tat ; pari of the nitrogenous portion is consumed by lhe voluntary and involuntary motions of the muscles and part forms fresh flesh for the , growing animal of the inorganic ma'lers of i the food a portion is required lor lhe lormation of bone ll is therefore quite clear that there i must be less manuring mailer in the excre | menis than in the food of which ihey are mere j ly the unconsumed remains â€” the ashes fourthly : il is known ihat animal and ve gelable substances are composed of the same original elements ; that all particles have had vegetable life thai though the proximate chang es and combinations of their aliments are most innumerable yel lhat the results ol the ulti mate decomposition of animal and vegetable matter in contact with air are the same fifthly : to sum up ; if as it has been prov ed the excrelae of animals weigh less than the lood they have eaten il there is a diminution of the most valuable ol the ingredients in pas sing the animal ; and it in their ultimate de composition the food and excrelae give the same products it follows that the products of the de composition ofihe original food will be great est in quantity and richest in quality ; but prac tical experiments are in this instance so ea sily made that i should be wrong it i omitted to mention some of the numerous facts which experimentally prove the truth of my assertions mr w trumper mr oakley and others have forwarded me the results uf trials made on their respective farms mr trumper in a field of rape part fed ofl by sheep and the other ploughed in found in the succeeding wheat crop a difference of a quarter per acre in favor of ploughing in â€” mark lane express rrrors in composing farm manures â€” the farmer's manure heap is usually lhe receptacle for every substance that has served its original purpose bul it is a mistaken idea that every thing thrown in there will serve a useful pur pose we may however just say here lhat this error bas considerably influenced farm practice belief in the alcbymy rather than the chemistry of the farmyard has led some persons to cart soil into the manure yard and to carry it back again with the dung tothe very field from which it was taken ; adding materi ally to the bulk and expense of lhe manuring they presumed that ihey added to i's value but the effect of the earth upon the larm yard manure would be merely to retain decomposi tion and thus might be a loss or a gam ac cording to the circumstances of the soil and the crop nimal substance offal and fish of every de scription are also very unprotiiably applied lo farmyard manure the natural tendency of animal substances to enter into putrefactive ler mentation is well known to be greater than j that of vegetable substances by placing ihem manuring substances â€” morion's practical ag riculture hoic manufactures tend to increase the pro ducts of agricultural labor â€” ue invile to ho following paper lhe attention of our agricultur al readers and beg at the same time to remind ihem lhat the consumption of iron for the pre paration of machinery tor the production con version or transportation of the products ofthe earth is now le>s by about two hundred thou sand tons than il was four years since although the populaiion has increased iu lhal lime not less than three millions : â€” plough loom and anvil | '* i was pleased to find here i cheap steam engine on wheels tour-horse costing s3j5 ail appliances included from the manufactory ol hoard & bradford watertown jeflerson county i visited and spoke of their works some tilieen monihs since and i learned lo day lhat they have been unable to jill iheir orders promptly at any lime during ihe past year ow ing the continually increasing demand aitho ihey have in lhe meantime quadrupled the num ber of their workmen 1 hey make engines wiih boiler c as low as 7."i half horse requiring about as much fuel as a parlor fire and from that up to six horse 400 the one here exhibited can be guided to the barn or stack to thresh out and winnow the grain and when that is done will propel itself lo the field in quest of a job of stump pulling : thence will travel hack lo lhe house and there saw up the winter's wood about as fast as a man can hand il along beguiling its leisure memenls by pumping water for the cattle churning turning grindstone hanging ihe brass kettle over the kitchen fire and rocking the ciadle ol course i speak only ofihe power ; to apply it lo all of these various uses olher machinery is requi site bul i have seen enough to convince me that for all purposes where essentially station ary power will answer steam is already cheap er for lhe farmer on a liberal scjle than horse power and lhal it is a shameful waste of hu t man labor lo cut up a pile of wood wilh an axe for ploughing transportation and such essen | tially locomotive uses i think cattle must still be employed until the lime which cannol now be many years ahead when lhe steam engine shall be superceded by some agency or motive force which does not so rapidly exhaust or con sume the material or elements of ils power hominy â€” we have never any grains of al 1 lowance for the host or hostess in this enlight ened dav who will spread for his or her guest a supper but more especially a breakfast with out a smoking dish of well prepared and well boiled hominy or grits if you'll so called il made from pure white or flint corn for fear you'll plead ignorance and say that lhe review er never told how to make his favorite dish here is lhe modus : afler shelling your corn winnow and clean it of all dirt and trash for wh eat more o il in corn bread than all our \ food besides ; then soak your grain for five minutes or longer in clear boiling water lei it drain then grind in a sleel mill and spread immediately upon a clean cloth and upon a ta ; ble in lhe sun alier drying winnow il thor i oughly of the bran which slips from the grist i in grinding the same in pounding by being soaked in boiling water hominy before it is boiled should always be soaked lor a few hours over night for example and then cooked as quick as possible we esteem good hominy one ofthe greatest luxuiies in life a dish lhat foreigners may covet and used as a standing dish we regard it as the best proof of an intel ligent housekeeper it cannot fail to have been noticed by the j public that the democralic prints and leiier writers have latterly been speaking of mr clay ' in terms and in a spirit such as we have not before heard from ihem in relation to that dis linguished man they are uttering the deep ' est regrets that his mortal career is threaten ! ed to be closed before long ; and they bestow ! upon the sick lion a meed of praise and opprov â– al not so high indeed as his noble qualities entitle him to but such as that parly has not ' suffered to escape them lili lately we have no doubt lhal this admiration and regret are sincere we have as little doubt lhat the admiration even higher lhar they : now choose to utter has always been fell by : them what a contrast does the tone of their press and the language of iheir party now present to lhat we constantly heard from them in all lime past ! every body remembers lhe bilterness ol spirit the rancour of party malig nily the violence of denunciation wiih which ihese sympathisers and admirers ol lhe great patriot and statesman used to assail him ; how ihey ia=ked iheir invention and strickled at no misiepresentation to blacken that name which belongs so illustriously to our national fame â€” how they accomplished by it a temporary suc cess lhe country well knows and we fear will long have cause to lament their present admiration of bis exalted char acter is a striking commentary by thnnselves on their previous course how much of ve racily of pi fnciple of morality or of patriotism can belong to those who lor the mere purpo ses of party and with a shameless disregard of the high interests of the country pursued al most to the deaih the foremost man of all the world :" and il mr clay could be now looked lo as a man pratically in iheir way would ihey suffer a word ol approval to escape ihem â€” would not again the whole party back be turn ed loose lo worry and lo bay and it possible lo pull down ibe noble lion over whose body now apparently stricken down by disease and age tbey pour forth a share at least ofthe bom age due to his high qualities ? we devoutly trust however that providence in its mercy to our country will yet spare to us for a while the sagacity the statesmanship and lhe lofiy patriotism oi this fiist of our first â– men there is some reason to apprehend that ' efforts may be made to entangle and embarrass i our country in a foreign policy from whose ruinous consequents his high talents pracli i cal wisdom and weight ofcharacter may large ly contribute to save us richmond whig hunger never saw bad bread salisbury n c thursday february 12 1852

n ;. ir tu , doli-ars-payable i li ince two dollar l e ifi,rthefirb.,and25cts , courtorders \ . han these rates al.b â€ž. o h advertise by the year tie post panl ,. fetor's sketches the carolina watchman in the manure heap we in a farther degree facilitate the quality in wbich they naturally excel and the tendency of which is to rob them of their mosi valuable element nitrogen ju dicious practice should avoid ibis error by a dopiiug it possible a system having an oppo site effect lime is one of the substances which it is i also an error lo use with composts in which we ! have farm yard manure il is equally an er ror lo mil lime wiih any compound rich in am monia the tendency of lime in all composts i9 lo promote decomposition and to waste ni trogen which escape by onion wilh hydrogen under the form of ammonia wliich i the ery treasure of lbe dunir heap and of most olher j j bruner i / " keep a check upon all vocr editor sf proprietor \ rclers ( new series do this an'p llbekty is safe < gen'l harrison ( volume viii number 41 q church brooklyn n.york the browa j-lu ,._,. ol my pastoral visits 1 i man wbo was a member of ; a a tion , a farmer between fifty s , ; age ; a plain man ac : **. - t0 dailv labor hn was not a am j j had no reason totbmu 5 man he was a regu i he religious services 'â– ' i â– but i had never seen him s .. assembly at any other >'â€¢*,, ", .;, rarded as a respectable eve in all respects his wife _ woman whom 1 had some ','â– -,,] witb and who had ex e ber anxiety in regard to the 0 f her husband he had \ manv years living under the * f erace without being led to re lf8nsÂ°'â€žd faith in christ that she was r;i , : ';'. mind had settled down upon us error or into a strange sta he never would become a shi said she had often talked suhjecl of his religious duty ; i entered into any iree con l upon it indeed " be would say \ , ' n thiiig al all about himself he ,!,,!* she had to say ; without h witb apparent willing , Â«â€¢ but he seldom made any reply ex omake some general acknowledg l 0 i the importance of the subject ",] a family ol children the most of . ir _ had airen.lv arrived at the years of hood and none of them manifested position to obey the gospel inspirit , 'â€¢ ;- tith tbey were a moral and in .. family 1 be sons were much ., â€¢â€¢-. with the exception that uently were seen at church j resided some distance from my ii 1 had not known them very j except the mother as the rest family were usually absent in the ..;) 1 called at their house wore the time to which i refer i had ver found this man at home ; nor had i jtn able to converse with him at all in ference to his religious duty soon af lered the house his wife retired eroom,and lefi me alone with him liately addressed him on the sub | of religion heappeared candid and â– j found that he had no hope in j â€¢â€ž!.;*. he said that religion bail for ma i fÂ»rs appeared to him as a solemn and lant duty he saiil be was fully ible that he vvas a sinner in god's lit and was exposed to his righteous j he refi rred to the sermons which i chad beard from sabbath to sabbath ; dsaid it was t wonder to him that they li not influence him more but he sup jsedlhat lu had " little true conviction sin and little sense of his real condi j hi or be should be a different man in i is manner he spake of himself very free i , for along tune he appeared to me j beamanol respectable mind rather in i ou.iiuml inhissensibilities but ot sound j id nl some discrimination n to give his instant and pray j â– uni to his salvation ; but he did | * ; ti:i inclined to yield to my solicita | pressed it upon him strongly i j '" bun the promises of god made j seek inm : and the threaten â€¢' : uni i.;iii*st tin neglectors of sal ( â€¢ s iil in appeared unmoved i i ncluded to put together in a man ipted to his cast of mind some of est urgent appeals that i could think ' commenced saul i : ** you are al :: iiie hat advanced in life your ing years will be lew you have k e to lose you have lost enough if you do not become a lollower : si soon you never will you have â€¢ ol children vou have never set sample of piety you have prayed with them as you ought to ' v ur neglect goes far to de i influence which their mother j - ' ;â€¢'â€¢'"â€¢ over them they copy your i will bold you accountable i v influence you may be the ' ht i their roin because 1 i-at often troubles me said he in p : g me in the middle of what i de i say â€¢-'' to trouble you it is a serious ra lather to live before his sons owledginggod without pray j p just as if he and they had j te rest in the matter of religion â– '-'â€¢ whose * spirit goeth down ; odeed it is said he 'â€¢ and i am - to be an old man 1 wish 1 religion " ca Â»- the whole way is clear j w j lias made it so jjjj 7 h said he emphatically ,^ vou would make a prayer with 7 ' in mrs e and the boys mediately called them sl * a>i s a few words to each ot 1 , , """'">' addressing them all we -' -â€¢ i in prayer as we rose from ' v ' he said to his children verv '-.-,:' ., y s Â» l hope this visit of our . ''â– jo us all good it is time for ' ot our souls i left them .... ne j sabbath they were all in â€¢:â€¢:'. h s '""â€¢' close of the morning ser â– > -. . ."^ v " ; j conversation again with "'* appeared to be honestly 7 ,'; k-rimned to ** deny l jimse i be c j cr ss and follow jesus christ '" ued very much in this state of t "* months sensible of his need , f s ave him and prayerful for ;-â€¢ i saw him and conversed * uan i times ile did not appear to make any progress eitheir in knowledge | or sensibility he did not go back ; but j he was stationary he prayed in secret ; he prayed in his family he studied his bible he conversed with me freely â€” he sought opportunity for conversation uniformly he appeared solemn and in earnest but he found no peace with god no hope in christ evidently be was in deep trouble of mind as he was not a man of much cultiva j tion of mind i aimed to teach him the j truth in the most plain and simple man i ner i proved every thing and explained j every thing it was all in vain months | rolled on he continued in the same state it was impossible to discover or conjec ture what kept him from christ his con dition tilled me with solicitude ; but i stud ied it in vain i made inquiries about him among his friends and neighbors to learn it possible his whole disposition and his character of i mind but i soon discovered as i thought that i knew him better than any body else ! more than six months after he began to j give his prayerful attention to his salva i tion as i was riding towards his house just at a turn in the road where it wound round a hill which hindered our seeing each other till we were close together i suddenly met him he vvas riding in his one-horse wagon towards the village i stopped my horse to speak to him and i thought he appeared disposed to pass on but as the road was narrow and i had stopped my carriage the wheels of our vehicles almost touched each other and he could not well get by we had a long conversation as we sat in our carriages in that retired and romantic spot but i descerned no change in his religious feel ings he was as determined but as hope less as ever at length my eye happened to rest on a brown jug which would contain about two gallons and which was lying on its side under the seat of his wagon the thought came into my mind that he might be accustomed to stimulating drinks and that that might be an injury and a hin drance to him in his religious endeavors i had never heard or suspected that he was an intemperate man probably the idea never would have occurred to me that strong drink might be his hindrance had 1 not been utterly unable to account for his stationary conditicn in respect to re ligion 1 instantly resolved to speak to him on that subject but it was an awk ward business 1 did not know how to begin i would not insult him and i did not wish to injure his feelings he was an old man near sixty â€” old enough to be my father and to suggest the idea that he might be guilty of any excess would seem to be cruel and uncalled lor but 1 thought it my duty to make some inquiry so 1 began : 'â€¢ mr e where are you going this morn ing â€¢" â€¢â€¢ i am going to the village â€” to the store j â€¢* i see you have got a jug there under , your seat ; what are you going to do with that ?" he cast his eye down upon it a little confused for an instant as 1 thought but he immediately replied : â€” â€¢â€¢ i am going to get some rum in it ?" " are you accustomed to drink rum ?" " i never drink any to hurt me " you never drink any to do you any good â€¢â€¢ i have thought it did sometimes i don't drink much " do you drink every day ?" " no uot every day commonly we . had none to use in the field this year in j all our haying till we came to the wet meadow ; when the boys said we should get the fever if we worked with our feet j wet and had nothing to drink " so you have used it since that time i you carry it into the field i suppose ?" j â€¢' yes ; we commonly do in haying and j harvest | â€¢' well ; at other times of the year do : you keep it on hand in your house ?" * - yes ; i always keep it but it is only j a litlle that i drink ; sometimes a glass of j bitters in the morning â€” or when i am : not well and feel that i need something j 'â€¢ mr e when you are perplexed annoy ed or in some trouble ; do you never take a drink on that account 1 " 1 am very apt to it seems to keep _ Â» me up well now just tell me for a good manv months back since you have been i troubled on the subject of religion have i you been accustomed to resort to it ' to â€¢ keep you up v " . i " yes ; at times i feel the need of it " in my opinion that is the o.wmhing my dear friend that you could do /" " why i only drink a little at home 1 have not carried it into the field except in having time Â« so i understand it but one question more : have vou not often at home when you have felt'dovvn-cast in mind on ac count of sin taken a drink because you felt thus troubled ?" â€¢â€¢ i believe i have done it some times i cannot tell how often i never thought much about it i had become convinced by this time that he was at least in dan ger ; and that it vvas not at all an impro bable thing that his drinking just kept him from repentance 1 told him so ; and then began with all my sagacity and pow er of persuasion to induce him to quit all intoxicating drinks forever at first he appeared not to believe me at all he heard me just as if be had made up his mind and did not care what i said his eyes wandered carelessly around over the fields and trees and then turned upon his old horse as if he was impatient to start on and get out of the way of a lecture which he disbelieved after a time however and while i was stating to him some facts within my own j knowledge to show the uselessness of i strong drink he became apparently inter | ested in what i was saying he listened ! and i went on with my plea as i explain j ed the effect of intoxicating drink upon j the mind and upon the feeling and tbe ] conscience of men he hung down his head â€¢ and appeared to be lost in thought after j a while as i kept talking he cast a glance at his jug ; then looked up ; and then his i eyes fell back upon his jug again i kept reasoning with him ; but he did not look at me any longer â€” he did not appear to be thinking of what i was saying he appeared rather to be engaged in deep thought ; and his eye often turned upon his jug by-and by he slowly reached down his hand and took hold of it with a very solemn countenance and without saying a word â€” he had not spoken for half on hour â€” he placed the brown jug upon his knee i talked on watching his silent motions he turned his head very deliberately around one way and the oth er as if he were looking for something ; his eyes glancing here and there as if he did not see what he desired i kept on talking to him just at the spot where we were the road swept politely round a large huge stone or side of a rock which rose about ten feet above the path ; and as those who built the road could not get it out of the way the path made rather a short turn round it this rock was within three feet of his wagon his eye fixed upon it and then glanced back to the jug upon his knee then he looked at the rock and then at his jug again and then at me â€” and thus his eye continued to wander from one to another of these three objects as if it could not get beyond them at first i was in some doubt which of the three was the most attractive to his eye â€” the rock the brown jug or myself but in a lit tle time i noticed that his eye rested on the brown jug longer than on me at length i was lost sight of altogether though 1 continued talking to him and his eye glanced backwards and forwards from the brown jug to the rock and from the rock to the brown jug all this time he maintained an unbroken silence and i kept on with my lecture finally he seized the poor jug by its side wrapping the long fingers of his right hand half round it and slowly rising from his seat he stretched up his tall frame to its full length and lifting the brown jug aloft as high as his arm could reach he hurled it with all his might against the rock dashing it into a thousand pieces â€” whoa whoa whoa said he to the old hold on here whoa ! whoa ! turn about here whoa we will go home now the horse had suddenly started forwards frightened at the clatter of the brown jug and the pieces which bounded back against his legs and side the start was very sudden ; and as my long friend was standing up it came near to pitch his tall figure out of the wagon backwards however he did not fall â€” as he cried " whoa ! whoa !"' he put back his long arm upon the side of the wagon and saved himself he soon stopped his old horse and deliberately turning him round in the street till he got him headed towards home he put on the whip and without saying a word to me or even cast ing a patting look he drove off like jehu i drove on alter him as fast i could ; but i could not catch him he flew over the road and when i past his house about a mile from the jug rock he was stripping off tbe harness in a great hurry we exchanged a parting bow as i drove by ; and i never spoke to him about rum after wards within a single month from this j time that man became as he believed a child ol god his gloom and fears were gone ; and he had peace by faith in jesus christ about a month afterwards as i passed the spot where such a catastrophe came upon the jug and where my long friend came so near to be toppled out of his wag i on ; i noticed that some one had gathered i up some pieces of the unfortunate brown ! jug and placed them high up on a shoul ! deÂ°r of the rock i saw them lying there | many times afterwards ; and thought that my friend had probably placed them there as an affecting memorial he might have done a worse thing from the soil of the south the science of agriculture we have said that agriculture has be come a science that we are right in this all men of intelligence will admit although no doubt many of our old far mers would shrug their shoulders at the idea of sending their sons to school to learn how to manage their farm ! however they should not think strange of this â€” instead of being a routine of drudgery as in ages past farming is becoming a most delightful profession and has already en listed in its ranks the first intellects of the world the day has come when the scientific farmer takes a high rank in the world of intellect some of our readers we presume will pooh at these book farmers and ask in in what these scientific principles of farm ing consist ? what these wonderful dis coveries are ? but a few reflections ought to do away j with all surprise upon this subject let ! the old fashioned farmer ask himself why j it is ihat some pieces of land will produce ! a better crop ol oats corn or wheat than others or why is it that kernel of corn ! placed in the ground will spring up grow to a great height and produce a large ' bulk of the same material ? from what i are the large stalks leaves and ears of corn produced ? how can the farmer an i swer this question no one substance exists in the ground to spring up myster i iously in this way the most slight ob | server is forced to say that the stock and grain is taken from the atmosphere and j drawn from the water and gases in the earth by the roots which extend them selves in every direction from the grain planted the water so taken up by the i roots is charged with mineral and vege j table substances and by a process similar to that by which nature changes food ta ken into the stomach into flesh they are converted into the growing plant to learn exactly what these materials taken up by the roots and grain are is the first step in agricultural science : and if this can be found out is there a farmer in the world who would hesitate to say that the discovery wouid be of the highest im portance ? by finding this out he would at once see that he would have a guide in selecting the soils and preparing them for any required crop soils vary all are not formed of the same materials â€” neither are grains all composed of the same principles in the same proportions the soil that will nourish one kind will not sustain another the chemist is able to separate all the parts of a plant and tell us of what they are composed this has been done re peatedly the corn plant of which we have been speaking is found to be com posed of the following materials viz when green and growing about 89 or 90 parts in a hundred of water ; of carbonic acid ; silica or flint ; sulphuric acid ; phos phoric acid ; lime ; magnesia ; potash ; soda and chlorine the principal substan ces of all plants the proportions of the above substances saving water are not given as the allusion to the composition plants is only made to show of what they are formed perhaps it is well to say that the substances most abounding in the green stalk after separating the water are silica phosphoric acid and soda pot ash abounds in the blade ; but is far more abundant in the ripened kernel conse quently it is seen that ashes are a good manure for this plant and the experience of farmers has confirmed the indications of chemical analysis the foregoing observations lead to im portant inquiries and considerations the substances which form a blade of grass or a vegetable plant are all conveyed to them through the medium ot gases and water the mineral parts are of course j dissolved by the water flowing through the . soil and arrested by the roots of the plant j and thus converted into vegetation thus j we see why in order to be productive | the water must have a free circulation | through the soil ; as when it is otherwise | the mineral substances are not so easily i dissolved and circulated and the air is ex ( eluded leaving the land wet with cold ; and sour and here we see that drain age is another confirmation of the indica tions of chemical analysis we propose here to state another indt cation of chemical analysis which has â– been sustained by experience of farmers | although the course indicated is plowing j the idea is that by putting the plow down | deep more soil and mineral substances are brought to the surface exposed tothe j atmosphere and water and thus decom posed and rendered nutriment for plants deep plowing is called for by the pr.nci ples of agricultural science and is sus tained by well tested experiments there can be no question other things be ing equal but that one acre of soil twelve inches deep try it farmers ; plow dee per and a little less of it and if you do not find the practice here advised to your profit.you will not be likely to find it great ly to your loss from the southern cultivator plow deep and plant shal i low mr editor in looking about me this vear i have noticed a great number ot farmers in this part ofthe country break ing up their lands about ten inches deep and planting their corn nearly as deep-as is he old adage with us plow deep and plant deep-but plant deep anyhow - now sir do you not know that this ts a Â£Â£Â£/ l/you don't 1 do know that Â£ is as broad a mistake as was ever made by intelligent farmers because i have tried it and i know it by experience m rule is to plow deep and plant shallow contrary to the recommendation , of sev eral agricultural papers and 1 wiu 1 you my reason for so dotng i plow ! deep subsoil from fifteentotwenty inches i so as to get as much clay on top as poss i fble which will through a chemical pro t less turn to soil ; and to turn the soil un de the clay in which i intend lor the j fools ol corn to grow i have the rows in which i intend planting run off about four inches deep ; by this means i secure lhe richest soil for my corn to take root in ; and by plowing deep and planting shal low i have a deep loose soil and will al ways secure moisture to the roots of corn the question might be asked : why is it that he don't plant his corn deep it is this : suppose i break my land fifteen in ches deep and plant my corn twelve i would only have three inches of loose dirt for my corn to grow in and more than pro bable that would be clay while the roots of corn would have little or no advantage from the soil it must be to all that will look at the reason of the case very ovi ous i would ask some of your readers that have their doubts about this if they question it at all to try the experiment | next year and inform you of the result wishing you great success wilh vour pa ! per i remain truth effects of ploughing in green crops as \ compared with feeding them â€” ii is yet a com unon notion that herbiverous animals have some distinct and peculiar mode of action upon the various constituents of their food by which i those parts expelled as excrelae are rendered more til lor the food of plants than could be the ] original foud rotted or decomposod in any oth i er way it is also ordinarily received that the : deposit of a number of animals led upon an acre of any green crop will be more beneficial to the land than an acre of the same crop plow ; ed in and properly decomposed in the land for some years past i have endeavored lo combat these opinions but as they are still re tained in some quarters i intend in this letter to repeat my arguments and to give instances i where practice has proved ihe truth of theoret ical deductions 1 shall not here argue as to the amount of profit and loss attached to the j mode of proceeding as that always depends : upon circumstances ot which the farmer is the j best judge nor shall i attempt lo prove that ! under all possible circumstances to plough in a green crop will give a greater produce han to feed it off for in case of exceedingly light lands lhe mechanical action ol the ireading of the feet of the sheep however is lhat under general circumstances in ordinary soils lhe ploughing in of any green crop and its subse quent decomposition in the soil will give more manure lo thai soil than if the crop had been off and that lhe effect ol this great amount of manure will be seen in the subsequent crops the arguments in proof may be slated as fol lows : firstly it is well established that animals in breathing give back more tothe air than they derive from it they receive nitrogen and oxy j gen and return them again plus a certain ex cess of nitrogen carbonic acid and aqueous j vapor animals also transmit to he air much i insensible and sensible perspiration secondly : the experiments of bousinijnauli j and others have shown that the liquid and solid j excrements td animals weigh much less than j the food from which ihey have been derived ; and lhat as regards the food excreta are defi cient in nitrogen carbon and hydrogen thirdly : it is well known lhat animals con sume a considerable portion of the farinaceous and oleaginous portions of iheir food for the production o animal heat aud the greater por tion ol the excess is laid up in the form of tat ; pari of the nitrogenous portion is consumed by lhe voluntary and involuntary motions of the muscles and part forms fresh flesh for the , growing animal of the inorganic ma'lers of i the food a portion is required lor lhe lormation of bone ll is therefore quite clear that there i must be less manuring mailer in the excre | menis than in the food of which ihey are mere j ly the unconsumed remains â€” the ashes fourthly : il is known ihat animal and ve gelable substances are composed of the same original elements ; that all particles have had vegetable life thai though the proximate chang es and combinations of their aliments are most innumerable yel lhat the results ol the ulti mate decomposition of animal and vegetable matter in contact with air are the same fifthly : to sum up ; if as it has been prov ed the excrelae of animals weigh less than the lood they have eaten il there is a diminution of the most valuable ol the ingredients in pas sing the animal ; and it in their ultimate de composition the food and excrelae give the same products it follows that the products of the de composition ofihe original food will be great est in quantity and richest in quality ; but prac tical experiments are in this instance so ea sily made that i should be wrong it i omitted to mention some of the numerous facts which experimentally prove the truth of my assertions mr w trumper mr oakley and others have forwarded me the results uf trials made on their respective farms mr trumper in a field of rape part fed ofl by sheep and the other ploughed in found in the succeeding wheat crop a difference of a quarter per acre in favor of ploughing in â€” mark lane express rrrors in composing farm manures â€” the farmer's manure heap is usually lhe receptacle for every substance that has served its original purpose bul it is a mistaken idea that every thing thrown in there will serve a useful pur pose we may however just say here lhat this error bas considerably influenced farm practice belief in the alcbymy rather than the chemistry of the farmyard has led some persons to cart soil into the manure yard and to carry it back again with the dung tothe very field from which it was taken ; adding materi ally to the bulk and expense of lhe manuring they presumed that ihey added to i's value but the effect of the earth upon the larm yard manure would be merely to retain decomposi tion and thus might be a loss or a gam ac cording to the circumstances of the soil and the crop nimal substance offal and fish of every de scription are also very unprotiiably applied lo farmyard manure the natural tendency of animal substances to enter into putrefactive ler mentation is well known to be greater than j that of vegetable substances by placing ihem manuring substances â€” morion's practical ag riculture hoic manufactures tend to increase the pro ducts of agricultural labor â€” ue invile to ho following paper lhe attention of our agricultur al readers and beg at the same time to remind ihem lhat the consumption of iron for the pre paration of machinery tor the production con version or transportation of the products ofthe earth is now le>s by about two hundred thou sand tons than il was four years since although the populaiion has increased iu lhal lime not less than three millions : â€” plough loom and anvil | '* i was pleased to find here i cheap steam engine on wheels tour-horse costing s3j5 ail appliances included from the manufactory ol hoard & bradford watertown jeflerson county i visited and spoke of their works some tilieen monihs since and i learned lo day lhat they have been unable to jill iheir orders promptly at any lime during ihe past year ow ing the continually increasing demand aitho ihey have in lhe meantime quadrupled the num ber of their workmen 1 hey make engines wiih boiler c as low as 7."i half horse requiring about as much fuel as a parlor fire and from that up to six horse 400 the one here exhibited can be guided to the barn or stack to thresh out and winnow the grain and when that is done will propel itself lo the field in quest of a job of stump pulling : thence will travel hack lo lhe house and there saw up the winter's wood about as fast as a man can hand il along beguiling its leisure memenls by pumping water for the cattle churning turning grindstone hanging ihe brass kettle over the kitchen fire and rocking the ciadle ol course i speak only ofihe power ; to apply it lo all of these various uses olher machinery is requi site bul i have seen enough to convince me that for all purposes where essentially station ary power will answer steam is already cheap er for lhe farmer on a liberal scjle than horse power and lhal it is a shameful waste of hu t man labor lo cut up a pile of wood wilh an axe for ploughing transportation and such essen | tially locomotive uses i think cattle must still be employed until the lime which cannol now be many years ahead when lhe steam engine shall be superceded by some agency or motive force which does not so rapidly exhaust or con sume the material or elements of ils power hominy â€” we have never any grains of al 1 lowance for the host or hostess in this enlight ened dav who will spread for his or her guest a supper but more especially a breakfast with out a smoking dish of well prepared and well boiled hominy or grits if you'll so called il made from pure white or flint corn for fear you'll plead ignorance and say that lhe review er never told how to make his favorite dish here is lhe modus : afler shelling your corn winnow and clean it of all dirt and trash for wh eat more o il in corn bread than all our \ food besides ; then soak your grain for five minutes or longer in clear boiling water lei it drain then grind in a sleel mill and spread immediately upon a clean cloth and upon a ta ; ble in lhe sun alier drying winnow il thor i oughly of the bran which slips from the grist i in grinding the same in pounding by being soaked in boiling water hominy before it is boiled should always be soaked lor a few hours over night for example and then cooked as quick as possible we esteem good hominy one ofthe greatest luxuiies in life a dish lhat foreigners may covet and used as a standing dish we regard it as the best proof of an intel ligent housekeeper it cannot fail to have been noticed by the j public that the democralic prints and leiier writers have latterly been speaking of mr clay ' in terms and in a spirit such as we have not before heard from ihem in relation to that dis linguished man they are uttering the deep ' est regrets that his mortal career is threaten ! ed to be closed before long ; and they bestow ! upon the sick lion a meed of praise and opprov â– al not so high indeed as his noble qualities entitle him to but such as that parly has not ' suffered to escape them lili lately we have no doubt lhal this admiration and regret are sincere we have as little doubt lhat the admiration even higher lhar they : now choose to utter has always been fell by : them what a contrast does the tone of their press and the language of iheir party now present to lhat we constantly heard from them in all lime past ! every body remembers lhe bilterness ol spirit the rancour of party malig nily the violence of denunciation wiih which ihese sympathisers and admirers ol lhe great patriot and statesman used to assail him ; how ihey ia=ked iheir invention and strickled at no misiepresentation to blacken that name which belongs so illustriously to our national fame â€” how they accomplished by it a temporary suc cess lhe country well knows and we fear will long have cause to lament their present admiration of bis exalted char acter is a striking commentary by thnnselves on their previous course how much of ve racily of pi fnciple of morality or of patriotism can belong to those who lor the mere purpo ses of party and with a shameless disregard of the high interests of the country pursued al most to the deaih the foremost man of all the world :" and il mr clay could be now looked lo as a man pratically in iheir way would ihey suffer a word ol approval to escape ihem â€” would not again the whole party back be turn ed loose lo worry and lo bay and it possible lo pull down ibe noble lion over whose body now apparently stricken down by disease and age tbey pour forth a share at least ofthe bom age due to his high qualities ? we devoutly trust however that providence in its mercy to our country will yet spare to us for a while the sagacity the statesmanship and lhe lofiy patriotism oi this fiist of our first â– men there is some reason to apprehend that ' efforts may be made to entangle and embarrass i our country in a foreign policy from whose ruinous consequents his high talents pracli i cal wisdom and weight ofcharacter may large ly contribute to save us richmond whig hunger never saw bad bread salisbury n c thursday february 12 1852